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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees (Colletidae) » Masked Bees (Hylaeus) » Subgenus Spatulariella (Hylaeus Subgenus Spatulariella) » Hylaeus hyalinatus

Species Hylaeus hyalinatus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References

The last few species from Cacalia - Hylaeus hyalinatus - male

Hylaeus Bee (dead) - Hylaeus hyalinatus - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

No Taxon (Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees)

Family Colletidae (Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees)

Genus Hylaeus (Masked Bees)

No Taxon (Subgenus Spatulariella)

Species hyalinatus (Hylaeus hyalinatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hylaeus armillatus

Hylaeus decipiens

Hylaeus miscellus

Hylaeus tricuspis

Prosopis hyalinata minos

Prosopis hyalinata var lugubris

Prosopis longicornis

Prosopis similis

Spatulariella hyalinata montebovensis

Spatulariella hyalinata aragonensis

Vespa bipunctata

Explanation of Names

Author of species is Smith, 1842.

Common name references the unusually hairy male face among European species

Identification

H. hyalinatus is quite a distinctive species in the east. In the female the clypeus and paroccular areas are roughly, but distinctly pitted. Also, the interpit spaces on the pleura are shiny. This is a very distinctive characteristic. Be sure to also check for this character if you think you have a female H. hyalinatus. (DL)

Range

Northeast

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Season

May to October

Food

Recorded on Coriandrum and Daucus. The Hosts section on its Discover Life species page lists known floral associations based on specimen records and images.

Remarks

Not a native species. Originally from Europe, North Africa, etc.

Print References

Ascher, J. S. 2001. Hylaeus hyalinatus Smith, a European bee new to North America, with notes on other adventive bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 103: 184-190.

Internet References

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Atlas Hymenoptera

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 21 April, 2008 - 10:33pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher, hg, PaleoJon, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 4 April, 2022 - 8:47pm

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